Security Life Insurance Company of America v. Meyling’s Empirical Analysis
146 F.3d 1184 · 1998
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Karla Schikore v. Bankamerica Supplemental Si Retirement Plan (2001), Providence Health Plan v. McDowell (2004)
14 federal appellate · 4 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts · Stipcich v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · 19 Cal. 3d 970 - Bailey v. Superior Court · Kanne v. Connecticut General Life Insurance
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nder ERISA, Congress has authorized the courts `to formulate a nationally uniform federal common law to supplement the explicit provisions and general policies set out in [the Act].' " Sec. Life Ins. Co. of Am. v. Meyling, 146 F.3d 1184 , 1191 (9th Cir. 1998) (quoting Peterson v. Am. Life & Health Ins. Co., 48 F.3d 404 , 411 (9th Cir. 1995)) (second alteration in original). Nonetheless, "the plain language of an ERISA plan should be given its literal and natural meaning.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ERISA must provide a rescission remedy when an insured makes material false representations regarding his health”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.